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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Kenya Film Classification Board is overstepping its mandate by policing content aired by broadcasters, the CA has said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Communication Authority Director general Francis Wangusi said on Thursday that the KFCB is only mandated with rating aired content, not controlling it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We are not aware of the parameters they use to classify content," Wangusi said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"As far as we know they are only supposed to advise on terms of general viewing and parental guidelines on above-18 content. That is the far they can go."</p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wangusi noted that the authority has the sole mandate of monitoring programming codes.</span><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/04/21/film-board-overstepping-mandate-in-policing-aired-adverts-ca_c1336402" target="_blank">http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/04/21/film-board-overstepping-mandate-in-policing-aired-adverts-ca_c1336402</a></div> </div></body>
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